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Petama Forum November Akasha - Inner Space 1 from:: Hazrat Inayat Khan: 'The Soul Whence and Whither? - Jinn' |
The word Akasha in the language of the Hindus is expressive of a meaning that explains its object. Akasha means accommodation, Inner space; not necessarily what we call the sky, although the sky is in itself an accommodation. On the model of the Akasha the whole creation has been based. The organs of the senses, the ears, the eyes, the nostrils, the mouth are all different aspects of Akasha, and in this way the human body is constructed. The purpose of this construction can be found in its own nature; as the purpose of the ears is in hearing, of the nostrils in breathing, of the eyes in seeing, so is the purpose of the whole body. The purpose of the body is to experience life fully. The body becomes a vehicle for the intelligence by which it is able to experience life fully. In order to make sound more audible people build domes and other places where resonance is produced and the voice and the words become more clear. So the construction of the body is intended to make all that is perceptible clear. By nature the body is the vehicle of the intelligence or the soul, by which it experiences life fully. But as we human beings have lived for generations a life of increasing artificiality, we have moved farther and farther from nature; therefore this vehicle which was made a perfect instrument to experience life fully has become less and less capable of attaining that object. It is this incapability of experiencing life fully, and the innate desire to experience it, which makes the soul strive for Inner attainment. What a human being does not know he thinks does not exist; in this is to be found the origin of materialism. But the tendency towards Inner realization remains there as an innate desire which is consciously or unconsciously felt by every soul, whether inwardly or material. It is for this reason that even a material person has a silent craving in his heart to probe the depth of the very Inner ideal which he disowns. The work of the senses is to experience, to taste, smell, touch, hear, and see; but besides these senses there is the inner sense which is one sense. It is by experiencing through the different organs of the senses that this one sense becomes many senses. It is the same sense which hears, smells, tastes, feels, touches; but because it experiences life through different organs, we human beings divide one sense into five senses. Life is the principal thing to consider, and true life is the Inner Life, the realization of God.
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